Volume 9 | Issue 34 | Number 1 | Article ID 3590 | Aug 30, 2011 The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus

Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites 体系的不安 定化行動としてのノルウェイのテロ−−ブレイヴィク、武器・薬物交換 の環境、世界的な影のエリート

Peter Dale Scott

Norway’s Terror as SystemicBut the backgrounds of some violent events are Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms- more mysteriously organized than, say, those of for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow a resentful and quasi-spontaneous grudge Elites killing or flash mob. For some time I have discussed acts such as the Kennedy Peter Dale Scott as what I have calleddeep events: events, obscured and/or Breivik’s Terror: Was It a Deep Event? misrepresented in mainstream media, whose origins are mysterious but often intelligence- The most surprising aspect of the recent related, attributed to marginal outsiders, but unexpected terrorist violence in Norway is that, intersecting with large and powerful but covert in retrospect, it is not surprising. Our revived forces having the power and the intent to hopes after the end of the , that we influence history. More recently I have might finally be emerging into a world of diminishing bloodshed, have been abundantly emphasized the need to analyze deep events disabused. Events of seemingly randomcomparatively, as part of an on-going hidden irrational violence, such as that which so substrate in so-called developed societies. And shocked us when President Kennedy was to raise the question whether key deep events assassinated, have become a predictable part are interrelated. of the world in which we live. Breivik’s mayhem on July 22, 2011, (henceforth To some extent we can blame the violence on 7/22) has forced me to clarify my definition of a our social system itself. It is clearlydeep event, to distinguish between those which unsatisfactory, and needs fundamentalare merely unsolved or mysterious in reconstructions that nonviolent actions have themselves, and those which have proved to be been painfully slow to deliver. Thus violence part of a larger systemic mystery grounded in slowly builds up at all levels, from the flash the structures of either society itself, or its mobs of the hopeless at the base of society to shadow underworld (demi-monde, Irrwelt), or the war schemes of those in high places. In in some combination of the two. As I wrote such a milieu Anders Breivik is only one of many, from the Unabomber in America to the three years ago, “The unthinkable – that jihadi suicide bombers everywhere, who have elements inside the state would conspire with chosen to dedicate themselves to sacrificial criminals to kill innocent civilians – has become violence, rather than to an eventless survival in not only thinkable but commonplace in the last an alienating status quo. century.”1

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anarchists, but were ultimately revealed to have been false-flag attacks organized, as part of a strategy of tension, by right-wing neo- fascists inside the Italian military intelligence agency SISMI, with a possible green light (according to the chief of SISMI) from elements in the CIA.4 Since then an Italian premier has confirmed that the parallel intelligence structure responsible for the bombings was part of a stay-behind network, Gladio, which we now know was originally organized by NATO as a potential resistance in the event of a Soviet occupation of western Europe. Moreover, in the words of an Italian parliamentary commission, “Those massacres, those bombs, those military action had been organized or promoted or supported…by men linked to the structures of the .”5

In country after country, the Gladio networks soon deteriorated into activist anti-democratic cells with intelligence connections. They have been shown to have been behind other acts of violence, including the actions of the Grey Breivik under arrest Wolves in Turkey, and the Brabant massacres of 1983-85 in Belgium.6 Nor is this ancient history. In November 1990 Italian Premier There is no evidence that Unabomber’s actions, Andreotti revealed that Italy, along with or the two assassination attempts against and the other NATO countries, had just President Gerald Ford (by Lynette Fromm and convened at a secret NATO Gladio meeting just Sara Jane Moore) were deep events in this the month before – i.e., after the fall of the second, more limited sense. The still not Berlin Wall.7 understood nerve gas attacks of 1995 in the Tokyo subway, by the Buddhist group Aum This persisting presence of Gladio networks Shinrikyo, can be seen as a possible deep throughout Europe, including Norway, raises event.2 The attack on Pope John Paul II is a the question: was 7/22 a systemic deep event, more probable one, because of the murderer’s or at least a possible deep event? Having membership in the Turkish Grey Wolves, an pondered this for a month, my conclusions, all activist movement close to the Turkish security tentative except the first, are these: apparatus now known as Turkey’s gizli devlet or deep state.3 1) Breivik most probably did not As examples of systemic deep events, we can act alone, despite the latest official point to two spectacular bombings in Italy, the reports: “prosecutors and police Piazza Fontana bombing in Milan and have said they are fairly certain simultaneous Rome bombing of 1969. These that Breivik planned and were initially blamed on marginal left-wing committed them on his own.”8

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2) We should probably look for his has called the illicit shadow elites associates in thedemi-monde that are part of the world’s elite mobilized outside and against the superclass.10 state, rather than in the structures of the state itself. 8) Thus Norway’s terror, like comparable bombings in Italy and 3) 7/22 is probably not a traditional Turkey, illustrates, once again, the false-flag operation; the milieu of congruence between the dark Breivik’s associates is indeed quadrant of systemic probably that pointed to, without destabilization (or what I once incrimination, in the alleged called “managed violence”) and the Breivik manifesto and video. milieu of the international drug traffic.11 4) The motive of 7/22 may have been to maximize publicity for the political message of one particular James Petras has wondered whether Breivik’s group in this milieu, the actions on 7/22 were part of a Norwegian Euronationalist Knights Templar of strategy of tension on the model of Piazza former neo-Nazi turned counter- Fontana. He has raised what he calls the jihad publicist Nick Greger. “obvious question…as to the degree to which the ideology of right wing extremism – neo- 5) We should look behind the fascism – has penetrated the police and counter-jihad ideology of Breivik security forces, especially the upper and Greger’s Knights Templar to echelons?”12 He thus suspects the extreme the arms-for-drugs trafficking delay of the police in reaching the island of connections of their avowed heroes Utøya – a suspicion enhanced by “confirmed and contacts – particularly of the reports in the Norwegian news media that Mr. Serbian Mafioso and Red Beret Breivik had called the police several times veteran . during the attack on Utoya.”13

6) Of particular interest are the criminal connections between the drug trafficker Ulemek (and possibly Breivik) and the Russian arms-and-drugs meta-group Far West LLC – a group I have discussed elsewhere for its involvement in systemic destabilization and conceivably even 9/11.9

7) Far West’s involvement in systemic destabilization was probably not just self-motivated, The Oslo bombing but had protection if not instigation from Far West’s connections to what David In response, the Norwegian peace researcher Rothkopf, in an important book, Ola Tunander has observed that the Norwegian

3 9 | 34 | 1 APJ | JF security establishment and police resources are characterization of the smaller than foreigners might imagine: perpetrator; “Norway is a small country with a relatively unified power structure, where everyone knows 2) “planted clues,” or what I have each other, and there is less of a clear split elsewhere referred to as a “paper between the security forces and the political trail,” often including videos elite. Close friends of the Chief of Police, for suitable for post-event promotion example the Deputy Foreign Minister, were of the legend; among those with children on the Utøya island."14 3) in particular, planted autodocumentation, a genre This may not close the debate. For Norway also ranging in variety from the had a Gladio stay-behind network, “historic diary” of Lee Harvey ROCAMBOLE (ROC), that was partly funded Oswald to the manifesto of the and controlled by NATO, the CIA, and the Unabomber; British service MI6. ROC was also controversial. In the 1950s a secret controversy 4) a tested modus operandi for a arose from Norway’s discovery that an mass bombing. American in Norway’s NATO HQ had “spied upon high-ranking Norwegian officials.” The left-wing Norwegian intelligence chief who The word “legend” is a term of art from the discovered this situation and protested it to intelligence world meaning a myth created NATO, Vilhelm Evang, was later forced out of around a person, usually to hide their real 16 office by other Norwegian security officials, as intent or loyalties. I use it here without the indirect result of a secret allegation prejudging the truth or falsity of the myth, or forwarded by CIA Counterintelligence Chief the related question of authorship. Above all, in James Angleton.15 So Norway’s security what follows, I do not mean to imply that the apparatus was not entirely homogeneous and myth can be dismissed as a cynical artifact. autonomous. Indeed it seems clear that the author of the manifesto/video, whether Breivik alone or Whatever the facts, 7/22 must be distinguished someone else, was consciously creating a myth from a classical false-flag event by Gladio stay- of a crusade against Islam which they sincerely behind networks. Traditionally in such cases, believed in. the designated perpetrator was associated, not with right-wingers, but the left. Let me digress for a moment, as someone who believes in the long-term future of democracy, The Key to 7/22 Lies in the Event, Not in open societies, and multiculturalism as it is the Man developing in America. I see the widespread resentments of Breivik and countless others Breivik the man is unique, proclaiming his about “multi-cultis” as a serious phenomenon affiliations with both the Unabomber’s worthy of sympathetic understanding. philosophy and the right-wing counter-jihad Technology and globalization, as much in milieu. But 7/22 the event is more familiar, and Russia and China as in the West, are creating presents a number of features that are also problems for the survival and health of cultures familiar from past deep events: everywhere, from Thailand to Tibet to the banlieu of Paris, for which it is difficult to see 1) a “legend” or documented short-term solutions.

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One response, ironically shared byIt is exceedingly common for high-publicity Euronationalist crusaders like Breivik and also deep events to be accompanied by such their jihadi Islamist opponents, is to be drawn autodocumentation, After the diaries of Lee to crusader-jihadi violence. (The secularHarvey Oswald and , the alleged anarchist Unabomber, quoted by Breivik, shows diary attributed to Arthur Bremer (the man said another version of this response.) Olivier Roy to have shot the 1972 presidential candidate and others have sensitively analyzed the appeal , stimulated Gore Vidal to of salafi jihad to young Muslims in Europe, with wonder, in an essay for the New York Review of an identity-crisis caused by their alienation Books, whether the true author of the diary from the various distant cultures of their might not have been the CIA officer and ancestors, as much as from the Western culture Watergate plotter E. Howard Hunt (or in my in which they are marginalized.17 We need also terms, whether the Wallace shooting might not to address the identity-crises of those who see have been a systemic deep event). their traditional monocultures, in Norway as anywhere else, challenged by rapid cultural changes that are inadequately discussed, let Nearby in a rented car, the police alone managed. found Bremer’s diary (odd that in the post-Gutenberg age Oswald, Take the example of Switzerland, a country Sirhan, and Bremer should have all that has learned over centuries to live with four committed to paper their pensées). different languages and two versions of According to the diary, Bremer had Christianity that once warred bitterly against tried to kill Nixon in Canada but each other. This cultural maturity does not failed to get close enough. He then equip the Swiss to deal easily with new decided to kill George Wallace. The immigrants who wish to establish not only absence of any logical motive is mosques but Sharia in their midst. now familiar to most Americans, who are quite at home with the A much longer essay than this one would be batty killer who acts alone in order needed to explore the resonances of Breivik’s to be on television.18 myth. But our topic here is 7/22, not Breivik the man. Gore’s perceptive witticism, the “killer who The planted clues for Breivik’s legend acts alone in order to be on television,” fits Breivik very well: his documents seem clearly Breivik the man must be viewed as unreliable, designed to generate maximum publicity and and every statement from him viewed with the speculation. greatest suspicion. Yet his extensive autodocumentation -- by which I mean the Somewhat like Breivik, Oswald left behind him Internet manifesto, video, and Facebook page a legacy of autodocumentation, some of which attributed to him -- deserve to be assessed proved to be very suited for post-assassination carefully regardless of authorship, especially in television. This included, besides a diary and the light of later statements he is alleged to extensive political manuscripts, an audio-video have made to the Norwegian police. And here tape involving an ex-Army psychological we can say that, whatever the truth about warfare expert, and expounding his alleged Breivik, the autodocumentation showspolitical beliefs. Yet the differences are connections leading ultimately to the shadowy instructive. Oswald’s autodocumentation of his underworld of arms and drug traffickers that alleged left-wing identity can be seen in may also have fostered al Qaeda. retrospect as false, and probably part of FBI-

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CIA efforts to discredit the Fair Play for Cuba time now allotted to them. Committee which Oswald tried to penetrate.19 Breivik’s video appears to express Otherwise the video is of professional quality, his true beliefs, even though I shall argue in a definitely not a home movie. One of the stylistic moment that most of the video may have been features unifying it is the steady predictable prepared by someone else. Yet in contrast to rhythm in the three- or four-second time-lapses Breivik’s, the misleading Oswald audio-video allotted to each still. This rhythm is broken, was aired extensively after the JFKjarringly, at the very end, when three photos of assassination, as part of the propaganda Breivik himself appear. The first two are campaign to describe him as a leftist.20 The presented very swiftly, completely out of sync Breivik video, by comparison, has beenwith the rhythmic presentation in the rest of downplayed, and has indeed disappeared from the video. many if not most of the web sites where it was originally posted.21 I am left with the strong impression that whoever added Breivik’s stills at the end of the This suggests to me that the Breivik video was video – who may possibly even have been intended to capitalize on the publicity caused Breivik himself – was not the original by his actions, but that the group behind this videographer or slideshow preparer. It was effort was not part of mainstream western someone instead with a different style, society, and is not currently being supported by sensibility, and purpose. (It would not surprise those in charge of the mainstream media. I me to learn that there are other discernible and shall suggest shortly that it was designed even quantifiable differences between the primarily for a different audience: the world of slideshow and Breivik parts of the video, with the resentful who find an outlet for their respect to such details as light.) resentments on the Internet. Whoever emailed out the video and manifesto What Does Breivik’s Video Indicate? That just before the attacks was most likely aware of Breivik Did Not Act Alone the massacres about to unfold. And if there is more than one author for the video, then Both the content and the authorship ofBreivik was most probably not acting alone. For Breivik’s video remain very mysterious. What the release of the two documents must be seems relatively clear is that it was not considered an integral, indeed an essential, composed and controlled by Breivik alone. part of the 7/22 event -- indeed the point of it. I shall argue shortly that its aim was not just The evidence for plural authorship for the video slaughter but publicity: to provoke a 22 is internal. Almost all of the video appears to heightened discussion of the issues and be a speeded-up version of a text-heavy promoters of counter-jihad. sequence of stills, possibly originally a slideshow presentation about knights templar The Modus Operandi of the Bomb and their fellow crusaders. It is clear both that a great deal of work has gone into the It has been widely noted that Breivik in 7/22 preparation and presentation of this text, and used the same bombing modus operandi as also that the text serves little or no purpose in Oklahoma City and the 1993 World Trade the speeded-up Breivik version, For there are Center bombing – an ammonium nitrate bomb sometimes up to about twenty lines of text on a concealed in a parked vehicle. As Andrew screen page, of which not more than about four Gumbel wrote in an op-ed for the Los Angeles or five lines can be read, even swiftly, in the Times,

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Breivik appears to have been more of the House than simply inspired by American Committee, predecessors such as Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber: The materials he used, the Nichols’ skill as a terrorist seems way he planned and carried out his to have grown while in the attacks, and his own writings all Philippines. Initially he was an suggest he was deeply familiar unsuccessful bomb-maker. with the actions of some notorious According to Michael Fortier’s political killers on this side of the testimony, Nichols and McVeigh Atlantic. Breivik possessed a Glock failed miserably when they tested semiautomatic, the same weapon an explosive device in the Arizona McVeigh was carrying when he desert just six months before they was arrested by a hawk-eyed bombed the Murrah building. Highway Patrol officer 90 minutes After Nichols’ final trip to the after the April 1995 bombing in Philippines, he and McVeigh were Oklahoma. Breivik also possessed a fully capable of manufacturing the .223-caliber Ruger assault rifle, crude but deadly bomb that was just like McVeigh.23 used to bring down the Murrah federal building.24

Rohrabacher also explored the apparent connections in the Philippines between Nichols and Ramzi Yousef, the al-Qaeda-linked mastermind of the 1993 WTC bombing. (Yousef is a close associate and relative of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, said to have been the mastermind of al Qaeda’s 9/11 exploit.)25 According to researcher J.M. Berger and others, “In November 1994, Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef both walked on the grounds of the same college campus,” Southwestern University in the Philippine city of Cebu, where an Islamist cell was active. Later, each man 26 Oklahoma City bombing booked a flight on the same airline.

It is worth recalling that in the 1993 bombing The debate still continues whether Breivik of the World Trade Center the attackers were himself could have developed the skills to make trained by a member of al Qaeda, Ali Mohamed, a successful ammonium nitrate bomb. But who almost certainly was a double agent there are strong indications that the 1993 WTC working also for U.S. sources. The same trainer bombers and one of the two known 1995 “led” (to quote the 9/11 Commission Report” Oklahoma City bombers (Tim McVeigh and the 1998 attack on the U.S. Embassy, and may Terry Nichols) received training from abroad, have trained the alleged 9/11 hijackers as possibly from al Qaeda. well.27

In the words of Dana Rohrabacher, Chairman This continuity suggests that all these

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American incidents of violence may have been Breivik himself has reportedly heightened the part of an on-going strategy of tension, to mystery behind the alleged “loner.” He is said destabilize society as a means to justify the to have explained to the police that he had ten ever-mounting budgets for America’s security times as much money (six million kroner, about forces. In American War Machine I devoted an $1.1 million) to finance his terrorist entire chapter to the question whether we attacks.32 His lawyer, Geir Lippestad, has added should see 9/11 as part of an on-going tradition that his planning also involved extensive travel: of “engineered” deep events. (I took the term “engineered” from a U.S. army document stating, “The engineering of a series of "[Breivik] has traveled in many countries in Europe, via car, ferry provocations to justify military intervention is and plane, said Lippestad. These feasible and could be accomplished with the 28 states correspond to some of those resources available.”) states mentioned in Breivik's so- The fact that Breivik imitated McVeigh does not called manifesto, which he prove that they were part of the same repeatedly mentioned during the organization. It is possible that Breivik interrogations. According to consciously imitated McVeigh, as a way of Lippestad, [Breivik's] traveling has heightening and shading the aura of mystery he been directly related to the cultivated around his actions – or if you will as planning of the attacks, which was a kind of hommage to McVeigh, along with the most intense in recent years. He Unabomber and others I shall name shortly. has met with an unknown number But I shall argue that Breivik may indeed have of people who have helped him to obtain materials, and he also been intimate with the arms-for-drugs milieu explained that most of the that can also be perceived in the background of equipment is from abroad. In both Oklahoma City and al Qaeda. (For al earlier questioning, Breivik Qaeda, despite the odd denial in the9/11 explained that he had six million Commission Report, was almost certainly a [kroner] to finance the terrorist drug-trafficking and drug-supported 33 29 attacks. organization.)

Breivik’s Finances Suggest He Did Not Act An even more suggestive lead to this hidden Alone financial dimension is a statement attached to the Breivik manifesto, in which “Breivik” Breivik’s planted clues about his finances also claimed to describe his irregular commercial point mysteriously to international connections and banking activity: beyond what was needed for 7/22 alone. In this case the mystery of his finances is reinforced by evidence we learn independently from the 2005-2007: Managing director Norwegian police: namely, that in 2007, a year of E-Commerce Group AS (part in which he reported little taxable income, the investment company – 50%, part equivalent of $115,000 was mysteriously sales/outsourcing company – 50%). deposited into Breivik’s bank account.30 This I converted ABB ENK to a important clue, not coming from Breivik corporation (AS). Total of 7 himself, refers to a time when "Government employees: 3 in Norway, 1 in records suggest that …. his early attempts at Russia, 1 in Indonesia, 1 in business were a failure."31 Romania, 1 in the US. Distribution

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of outsourcing services to foreign parties of Israel and formerly anti-Semitic companies, soldright-wing parties extolled in the Breivik software/programming solutions. manifesto.37 Worked part time with day trading (stocks/options/currency/commodit In this article I am arguing neither for nor ies). against the possible involvement of Israelis, along with others, in the events of 7/22. I will however argue that we should look for an In the words of this statement, ultimate source, not in the covert structures of any single state, but in a paranational dark force with the capacity to collude with or even This was a front (milking cow) with manipulate them. the purpose of financing resistance/liberation related Breivik, Knights Templar, and the Order military operations. The company 777 of Mad Nick Greger was successful although most of the funds were channelled through In short, both the Breivik autodocumentation a Caribbean subsidiary (with base and independent reports from the police about in Antigua, a location where his bank account suggest that there is an European countries do not have unexplored higher dimension to Breivik’s access): Brentwood Solutions crimes. The Breivik manifesto and video Limited with bank accounts in enhance this suggestion, associating Breivik other Caribbean nations and with an alleged larger movement of neo-Knight Eastern Europe. E-Commerce Templars crusading in defense of Judeo- Group was terminated in 2007 Christian Europe. while most of the funds were channelled in an “unorthodox The manifesto describes a Knights Templar manner” to Norway available to meeting Breivik is said to have attended in the coming intellectual and London, one consisting of only about five subsequent operations phase.34 people, including a Russian and a Serbian (“by proxy, location: Monrovia, Liberia,” apparently represented at the meeting by Breivik himself), Antigua, a small island in the Caribbean, was who was now eluding punishment for his noted for its corrupt banks with intelligence killings of Muslims in Bosnia. (“I joined the connections; it was used for example by BCCI session after visiting one of the initial and Israeli operatives in the 1980s for illicit facilitators, a Serbian Crusader Commander arms sales to the Medellin cocaineand war hero, in Monrovia, Liberia.”)38 cartel.35 Some have seen a possible implication of Israel in this allusion to Antigua by Breivik, an avowed pro-Zionist in his manifesto. The same people have pointed to an article by Barry Rubin in the July 31 Jerusalem Post, claiming that the Utoya youth camp that Breivik attacked (and which had been rehearsing ways to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza) was “engaged in what was essentially ... a pro- terrorist program.”36 Finally some have pointed to the growing links between the right-wing

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video, this one released by the leader of a self- professed Knights Templar group called Order 777. The leader, now allegedly reformed, is a former anti-Muslim terrorist and bomber from East Germany, by the name of Nick Greger (“Commander Mad Nick” or “madnick77”). Greger is a man of many talents and interests, including as an artist and author; and above all he (“madnick77”) is an obsessive poster of videos on the Internet (henceforward “Greger’s videos”). These “Order 777” videos, like Breivik’s, urge Judeo-Christian Europe to unite against the menace of Islam (“it’s not about race, it’s about religion”), and the related Breivik’s manifesto menace of globalist multi-culturalism as enforced by the UN and the United States. There are reasons to suspect that this Serbian One particular video posted by Greger, “The commander was Milorad Ulemek, also known Order 777 -- Immortals,” is so similar to as Milorad Lukovic (or Legija), a former Breivik’s in its stylistic details, that it suggests commander of the Serbian paramilitary unit a common origin may exist for both. Readers known as ’s Tigers (and later as Red can view the two videos and judge for Berets) that initiated in themselves: Breivik’s here, and Greger’s here. Bosnia. The Breivik manifesto extols the Tigers Note that both videos are divided into sections, and their commanders (including the late and in each the final “optimistic” (i.e. counter- Raznatovic Arkan and Ulemek, the only jihadistic) section is prefaced by the picture of survivor) as role models.39 a Knight Templar, with his distinctive heraldry of a red Maltese cross on a field.

The following description of the Greger video in the London Daily Telegraph is accurate:

The group, calling itself Order 777, claims to bring together Christian resistance movements and features a depiction of a Templar Knight [the one with a red Maltese cross] with the slogan “The Order 777 Strikes Back!” alongside footage of a variety of armed gangs with the words “factions united.”

Milorad Ulemik The groups include the UFF in Northern Ireland, Serbian nationalists, Liberian and The video attributed to Breivik shows some Congolese fighters and members of remarkable similarities to another pro-Ulemek the neo-fascist AWB in South

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Africa.

In one clip Mr Greger is handling a Kalashnikov and in another says: “The war of the future will be a war of the religions.”…

A number of similarities between the “compendium” [i.e. Breivik’s manifesto] and the Order 777 videos have begun to emerge.

Breivik said he had attended the founding meeting of the “Knights Templar Europe” in London “after visiting one of the initial facilitators, a Serbian Crusader Commander and war hero, in Monrovia, Liberia.” Nick Greger (left) and Paul Ray

Both the “compendium” and the Order 777 videos feature a man To these similarities should be added others: called Milorad Ulemek, a former their division into sections, their opening with a commander of the Red Berets, a Latin quotation, their staccato sequence of unit of the Serbian security stills surrounded by heavy black borders with Services called the JSO, who was accompanying lettering, their background of arrested in 2004 and convicted of loud ominous choral music, the scenes from the of Serbian Africa, their focus on heroic or would-be-heroic Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic and Christian crusaders, past and present, and former Serbian President Ivan their “optimistic” (i.e. counter-jihadistic) final Stambolic and of organising the sections, preceded by a picture of a Knight attempted murder of the Serbian Templar with a red Maltese cross on a white opposition leader Vuk Draskovic. field.41 There are also photos on the Internet of Nick Greger himself sporting a Knights The videos also feature Charles Templar T-shirt, with the same red Maltese Taylor, the former Liberian Cross that Breivik posted on the first page of dictator now facing war crimes his Internet manifesto.42 trials, and a girl called “Black Diamond” who fought on the rebel In other posts Greger presents himself as a army against Taylor in 2003.40 reformed, anti-racist “Christian brother.”

But the “Christians” defended in his video are without exception murderers ready, if alive, to kill again. For example, there seems no reason to call Charles Taylor (to whom Greger dedicated another video)43 Christian, other than that he once teamed up with televangelist Pat Robertson to mine diamonds in Liberia.

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According to Colbert King in theWashington Smith49 and (allegedly) Billy Post, Wright,50

and, most significantly, Breivik’s The U.S.-educated but Libya- and Greger’s hero Milorad trained Taylor is a menace to all Ulemek.51 that's decent….With tens of thousands of Liberians slain, hundreds of thousands displaced Ulemek was not just a militia leader, but a throughout West Africa, a Serbian Mafioso and member of generation of young Liberian boys ruined by their conversion to child the so-called , a soldiers, women raped and combination of a now defunct mutilated, his country is in secret police unit and powerful absolute ruins and is ostracized by 44 gangsters from the the world community. suburb of Zemun, who ran drug smuggling operations all over the Of greater relevance to this essay, Taylor, like Balkans and were involved in 52 all but two of the nine men celebrated in dozens of killings and abductions. Greger’s video, was implicated in the arms-for- drugs traffic.45 It is not surprising that Greger’s militia leaders Knights Templar, the International Arms- should become traffickers: illicit paramilitaries for-Drugs Traffic, and Far West LLC usually have to acquire and pay for their arms through illicit arms-for-drugs networks. The A fact not mentioned in Greger’s video (or so video’s line-up of Christian drug traffickers far in the subsequent discussion of it) is that of reminds us of the current symbiosis between the nine men celebrated at its outset, all but non-state violence (whether that of two (Eugene Terreblanche of South Africa and revolutionaries or of militias hired to fight Laurent Nkunda of the Democratic Republic of them) and the drug traffic: the drug traffic now the Congo) were united, not by ideology, but by thrives where there is non-state violence, and their involvement in the lucrative arms-for- those involved in such violence (whether of the drugs traffic. These included six who have been right or left) support themselves by drugs. directly identified elsewhere as drugToday the global maps of major drug-growing traffickers: and of non-state violence are virtually one and the same.

Charles Taylor, self-installed But for Breivik’s heroes Raznatovic Arkan and president of Liberia,46 Ulemek Legija, the drugs may have been a more serious and on-going part of their career Samir Geagea, militia leader in than as a means to the arms and the ethnic Lebanon,47 cleansing in Bosnia. The Yugoslav

Johnny Adair, former Protestant militia leader in Northern Ireland,48 government embodied by Milošević at the political level and Željko Irish militia hitmen Gary Ražnatović Arkan as the

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executioner, represented the mafia crime, including drug trafficking, and the in Serbia. Other high-profile actors global intelligence and corporate were involved, including Stanko establishment. From its origins as a Soviet “Cane” Subotic, who became one military intelligence (GRU) group in of the richest men in Eastern Afghanistan, with responsibility for narcotics Europe thanks to cigarette matters, it has expanded globally, and now smuggling. “Cane” is in golden enjoys connections to the intelligence networks exile in Switzerland, which does of Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Great not have extradition arrangements Britain, and the United States.”57 with Serbia. Arkan’s murder in 2000 marked the peak of this In particular, as I wrote six years ago, phase. Arkan was extorting from all other criminal groups and he The group's business front, Far was so convinced he was West Ltd [now Far West LLC]. is untouchable that he went around said to have CIA-approved without bodyguards”. The Zemun contractual dealings with clan came after him, Dojčinović Halliburton for geopolitical [Stevan Dojčinović of CIN (the purposes in the Caucasus, as well Center for Investigative Reporting] as dealings in Iraq with Diligence said. “Under the excuse of LLC, a group with connections to ‘avenging’ Arkan, the Zemun clan, Joe Allbaugh (the FEMA chief in in the following years, eliminated 2001) and to the President's all the competition and created the younger brother Neil Bush. The most rigid monopoly. Whatever head of Far West recently told a business you wanted to do, you had Russian outlet that "a well-known 53 to do it with them.” American corporation... is a co- founder of our agency."

Russian sources have linked Ulemek with Because of all these connections Vladimir Filin, the Russian leader of Far West transcending normal political and LLC, a group of former Soviet military ideological differences, I described intelligence officers accused of arms and drug it as a “meta-group,” like the drug 54 trafficking. In fact, Ulemek was said to have bank BCCI which was in some been so close to Filin, that Far West was significant ways its predecessor.58 “threatened” by Ulemek’s (“Legija”’s) imprisonment.55 The connection is probable: Serbian and Russian organized crime (allegedly Today I would say of my essay that I did not including Far West) were involved together not distinguish clearly enough between the Far just in drug trafficking but in the protection West meta-group itself and its “roof” or rackets at ports on the Black Sea.56 protection, the men it dealt with at a still higher level, like Boris Berezovsky’s man Breivik, Destabilization, Far West, and Alexander Voloshin in the Kremlin, or the multi- Global Shadow Elites billionaires Roman Abramovich and Adnan Khashoggi. Far West consisted of a Far West is not to be thought of as a localized multinational connection of structures and drug mafia like the Zemun gang, but as a networks in particular locations. Those using multinational linchpin between organized and protecting it did not constitute a structure,

13 9 | 34 | 1 APJ | JF but a paranational milieu without any single benefit from the crimes Breivik has been location or organization. charged with: specifically “destabilizing or destroying basic functions of society,” and “creating serious fear in the population.”63

In American War Machine a year ago I characterized Far West as a component of a larger war machine, and specifically as an “ongoing destabilization machine” whose principal aim in destabilization is not ideological, but “to promote conditions that facilitate its own business prospects…and specifically the chaos that makes for future contracts.”64

This brings us back to Ulemek and Filin, whose connection must have been a matter of business rather than of ideology. Ulemek had been involved in killing Muslim minorities, whereas members of Far West (who included Muslims) were allegedly involved in backing ethnic Muslim jihads inside Russia. But Ulemek and Filin, along with Greger and indeed Breivik, had a common interest in one goal: the destabilization of existing society. Obviously, for their activities, whether paramilitary violence, arms trafficking, or drugs, These protectors qualify as part of what David destabilization is beneficial, even necessary. Rothkopf has called the illicit “shadow elites, those whose influence stems from illicit or Of course destabilization is not profitable to 59 unconventional means.” Such illicit elites are drug traffickers alone. It also generates not marginal: Khashoggi, for example, was business for the power bureaucracies and once called by his American biographer “the private military corporations whose practice it 60 richest man in the world.” The Russian arms is to intervene in destabilized countries. And merchant Viktor Bout, who conducted arms finally it is a source of income to those illicit deals both with Charles Taylor of Liberia and elites who are themselves safely above drug with Far West in the Ukraine, has been called trafficking, but have become rich through “the Bill Gates or Donald Trump of modern gun banking the proceeds. running.”61 Thus Breivik, who must be condemned both as In an era when the combined wealth of the 225 a psychopathic mass murderer and as a threat richest people nearly equals the annual income to world order, can be seen as someone useful 62 of the poorer half of the earth’s population, it to those whose business it is to profit from the can be assumed that the power and influence of destabilization of that world order. the illicit wealthy is a major force to be reckoned with in world affairs. And it is clear Behind Systemic Destabilization: A Deep that some in these shadow elites stand to State or a Paranational Dark Force?

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The Breivik manifesto and video constitute a and intense conversation, said to me, “For veritable cherry orchard of planted clues, from many years I have been trying to fight the drug which it is possible to cherry-pick a number of traffic, and up till now I don’t really know what alternative explanatory scenarios. In my own I’m fighting.” I replied, “You know, on page 5 of case I have been guided by the need to test a my next book, I say almost the same thing.” (In double hypothesis I put forward tentatively in American War Machine, p. 5, I write that in the American War Machine: choosing to refer to the CIA’s global drug connection, I was not trying to define the force 1) There exists an on-going milieu precisely, but “attempting to denote and that is repeatedly a source for the describe a deep force, or forces, that I do not systemic destabilization in many of fully understand.”) the world’s major deep events, and The events of 7/22 do not by themselves resolve 2) there is a congruence between the mystery of this dark force. But they do help this dark quadrant of systemic to underline its on-going significance. destabilization (or what I once called “managed violence”) and the milieu of the international drug traffic.65 I would like to thank those researchers who helped me with this essay, in particular Magda Hassan and Jan Klimkowski ofDeep Politics I have tried to show in this essay that the Forum, and Ola Tunander. events of 7/22, studied in the context of the Breivik-Ulemek-Filin connection, provide an Peter Dale Scott, a former Canadian diplomat initial corroboration, at this stage admittedly and English Professor at the University of less than definitive, of this double hypothesis. California, Berkeley, is the author of Drugs Oil and War, The Road to 9/11, and The War There was a time when, citing the facts Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of disclosed about the Piazza Fontana bombing in War. His most recent book isAmerican War Italy or the Semdinli bombing in Turkey, I Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug tended to identify the source of all such deep events with the parastatal or “deep state” Connection and the Road to Afghanistan. His structures in these countries, including the CIA website, which contains a wealth of his in America. But in American War Machine I writings, is here. give reasons, not easily summarized, for suspecting that for the ultimate source of such Recommended citation: Peter Dale Scott, deep events we should look beyond the "Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: parastatal structures of nations (including the Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global CIA) to a more unstructured and paranational Shadow Elites," The Asia-Pacific Journal Vol 9, deep force or dark force, or forces, colluding Issue 34 No 1, August 22, 2011. with, and sometimes perhaps manipulating, these parastatal structures.66 Notes

1 In Moscow in 2010 I was invited to attend an Peter Dale Scott. “Korea (1950), the Tonkin International Forum on Afghan DrugGulf Incident, and 9/11: Deep Events in Recent Production. There a senior RussianAmerican History,” Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan counternarcotics official, in the course of a long Focus, June 22, 2008.

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2 The unsolved mystery of Aum Shinrikyo’s 9 Scott, American War Machine, 187-92; Peter motive for the mass attack is discussed by Dale Scott, “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11,” James William Jones, Blood That Cries Out from Flashpoint Magazine. the Earth: the Psychology of Religious Terrorism, 77-79. Cf. Robert Jay Lifton, 10 Destroying the World to Save It: Aum David Rothkopf,Superclass: the Global Shinrikyo, Apocalyptic Violence and the New Power Elite and the World They Are Making Global Terrorism, 68. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009), 289; cf. xx.

3 Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine 11 (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), The lethal bomb attack of November 2005 on 19-21; Christopher Deliso, The coming Balkan a bookshop in the Turkish district of Şemdinli, caliphate: the threat of radical Islam to Europe “initially attributed to the Kurdish separatist and the West, 100: “Military coups in 1971 and PKK, turned out to have been committed by 1980, bookended by chronic massacres of members of Turkey's paramilitary police civilian demonstrators throughout the , intelligence service, together with a former were all led by Counter-Guerrilla/Grey Wolves PKK member turned informer” (Scott. “Korea elements. Immediately after the 1980 military [1950], the Tonkin Gulf Incident, and 9/11,” coup that brought the Counter-Guerrillas citing Nicholas Birch, Irish Times, November leader, General Kenan Evren to power,26, 2005). Cf. Gareth Jones, “Bombing throws American CIA station chief Paul Henzespotlight on Turkey,” Hürriyet, November 20, reportedly cabled Washington exulting, ‘our 2005. boys have done it.’”

12 James Petras, “The Norwegian Massacre, the 4 Peter Dale Scott, The Road to 9/11 (Berkeley: State, the Media and Israel,” My Catbird Seat, University of California Press, 2007), 180-84; July 2011. Anna Cento Bull,Italian neofascism: the strategy of tension and the politics of non- 13 Michael Schwartz, “Suspect in Norway reconciliation, 112-20. Reconstructs Killings for Police,”New York Times, August 14, 2011. 5 Italian Senate, Parliamentary Committee

Investigating Terrorism, 2000; quoted in Daniel 14 Ganser, Nato’s Secret Armies (London: Frank Ola Tunander, personal communication, Cass, 2005), 14; cf. Guardian, June 24, 2000. August 4, 2011.

15 6 Ganser, Nato’s Secret Armies, 138-47, 228-30. Ganser, Nato’s Secret Armies, 176, 181, 183, 289.

7 Ganser, Nato’s Secret Armies, 14; cf. 17. 16 The term “legend” was popularized by author Edward Jay Epstein with respect to Oswald, in 8 Bjoern H. Amland and Malin Rising, “Anders a book with that title. Epstein was suggesting Behring Breivik, Norway Attacker, Returns To that Oswald’s legend had been created by the Crime Scene For Reconstruction ,” Huffington KGB for a non-assassination purpose. A CIA Post, August 14, 2011. monograph by former CIA officer Cleveland C.

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Cram, “Of Moles and Molehunters: A Review of Secrets, I.6/II.1 (Dec.-Jan. 1995/Feb.-Apr. Counterintelligence Literature,” criticized 1996), 20. Epstein’s book for creating what was in effect another legend: “Epstein, working with James 21 Angleton, was part of a disinformation It can still be seen on Youtube, but on campaign. Cram writes: ‘Legend… gavecondition that you first sign up and then certify Angleton and his supporters an advantage by that you are over 18. putting their argument adroitly – if dishonestly – before the public first’”John ( Simkin, 22 The video refers to the manifesto, and both “Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey are said to be produced by (in the video Oswald.”). version) De laude novae militae Productions. 16 Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for De laude novae militae is faulty Latin copied a New Ummah (New York: Columbia University from an amateurish website description of “In Press, 2004). Praise of the New Knighthood,” a letter Bernard of Clairvaux sent to Hugues de Payens in support of the Templar order 17 Olivier Roy, Globalized Islam: The Search for (TemplarHistory.com: A History and Mythos of a New Ummah (New York: Columbia University the Knights Templar, March 2010,link ). The Press, 2004). same words, corrected toDe laude novae militiae, open the manifesto.

18 Gore Vidal, "The Art and Arts of E. Howard Hunt," New York Review of Books, December 23 Andrew Gumbel, “Seeds of Terror in 13, 1973, (full disclosure: I wrote most of the Norway,” Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2011. brief footnotes for this essay): ”Although H.H. is a self-admitted forger of state papers I do not 24 think that he actually had a hand in writing Dana Rohrabacher, “Chairman's Report: The Bremer’s diary on the ground that the journal is Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There A Foreign a brilliant if flawed job of work, and beyond Connection?“ December 26, 2006. H.H.’s known literary competence.”

25 “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – Yousef’s uncle, 19 Peter Dale Scott, Deep Politics and the Death then located in Qatar – was a fellow plotter of of JFK (Berkeley: University of California Press, Yousef in the Manila air plot and had also wired 1992), 80-92, 262-66. him some money prior, to the Trade Center bombing (9/11 Commission Report, 73).

20 The CIA also made plans to have the Oswald tape translated into Spanish and distributed 26 J.M. Berger, “Did Nichols and Yousef Meet?” through Latin America via one of its radio Intelwire.com, 2004. Peter Lance cites a sworn assets. See “AMCOUP-1 Possible Use of DRE affidavit from a former leader of Abu Sayyaf (a Tape,” CIA Dispatch of December 13, 1963, Philippine group being trained by al Qaeda), NARA #104-10018-10074, available from Mary claiming that at a meeting he had met Yousef Ferrell Foundation website, “The President’s together with “a man named Terry Nichols, assassination, of course, gave this radio debate who was introduced …as ‘a farmer’” (Peter newsworthiness of the highest category.” Cf. Lance, 1000 Days, 313; cf. 317). Berger argues Peter Dale Scott, "New Documents."Open that this claim “comes up short.”

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27 Peter Dale Scott, Road to 9/11, 146-60; Peter 33 Stavanger Aftenblad, August 3, 2011. Dale Scott, "Bosnia, , and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington's On-Going 34 Collusion with Terrorists," Asia-Pacific Journal: “Personal facts about Andrew Berwick Japan Focus, July 29, 2011,(Anders Behring Breivik),” Aufgeweckt, July 25, http://japanfocus.org/-Peter_Dale-Scott/3578. 2011, link.

35 Scott, American War Machine, 163. This 28 Peter Dale Scott, American War Machine, arms supply operation is suspected to have 193-207; quoting from Joint Chiefs of Staff, been the work of a network headed by a former “Courses of Action Related to Cuba (Case II),” Mossad agent in Panama, Mike Harari, who Report of the J-5 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was remembered by some Norwegians. In 1973 May 1, 1963, NARA #202-10002-10018, 21. Harari, when Chief of the Operations Branch of Mossad, had overseen the botched murder of an innocent Moroccan in Lillehammer, Norway. 29 Scott, American War Machine, 167-68, 241-43; discussing 9/11 Commission Report, 36 Barry Rubin, "The Region: The Oslo 171. Syndrome,” Jerusalem Post, July 31 2011.

30 Justin Raimondo, “Anders Behring Breivik, 37 Wayne Madsen, “Israeli Co-option of Mystery Man: Following the money trail,” Europe's Far-right Political Parties” Rense.com, Antiwar.com, July 29, 2011; citing Independent August 3, 2011: “Although various media (London), July 28, 2001, link: “Exactly what he outlets, known to bend and succumb to the lived on in the run- up to the massacre remains pressure applied by Israel and its global a mystery. But his bank details reveal that in sympathizers, tried to downplay the 2007, a sum equivalent to €80,000 (£70,000) connections between Breivik and his allies in was added to his account, which would have Zionist circles in Israel and Europe, no less enabled him to live without having to work.” than the Jerusalem Post, an echo chamber for Zionist and neo-conservative interests, reported that Breivik was ‘motivated by 31 Raimondo, “Anders Behring Breivik, Mystery Zionism’ in carrying out his deadly attack in Man,” citing Sydney Morning Herald, July 25, Norway. 2011. In fact, Breivik had a keen interest in one such 32 Aftenposten, August 3, 2011, link. Cf. Hegnar stay-behind network in Turkey, a network that Online, 03 August 2011, link. In addition the transformed itself into the Israeli Mossad- language of the Breivik manifesto hints over linked Ergenekon network, which may still be and over at a larger entity behind 7/22 – e.g. "It active against the Justice and Development has been decided that the operation will be (AK) Party of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip effectuated in Autumn, 2011. However, I Erdogan. The German magazine Spiegel has cannot go into factors concerning why, at this highlighted the growing relationship between point. My current funds are running low, and I heretofore anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi far-right have less than 15 000 Euro left with a 30 000 European political parties and Israel's right- credit backup from my 10 different credit wing parties. Spiegel's report focused on cards. My primary funds should cover all particularly close ties between Israelis and the planned expenses without spending any of the Freedom Party of Austria, the National Front of credit. France, the Flemish Vlaams Belang, the

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National Democratic Party of Germany, , September 22, 2001. German Freedom Party, True Finns Party of Similarly Laurent Nkunda, another of the Finland, and the Northern League of Italy.” video’s heroes, is characterized by Leana Wen in the New York Times (June 21, 2007) as “an actual ‘warlord’ who is accused of raping and 38 Quoted in Paul Woodward, “Did Anders massacring thousands.” Wen heard from a Behring Breivik Act Alone? “ Eurasia Review, pastor that “Nkunda’s faith at one point July 25, 2011. seemed real;” but “local churches … were finally convinced that he was the one leading

39 the crimes and atrocities, and his own church “An illustration of several successful and ended up excommunicating him.” Wen decisive campaigns: - - describes Nkunda as sporting a pin, “Rebels for SDG[1] - Type: Paramilitary organisation - Christ” – a phrase displayed also in Greger’s Size: 10 000+ - Garrison HQ: Belgrade - video. Nickname: Arkan's Tigers, The Tigers - Commander: Zeljko Raznatovic - Second in command: Colonel Nebojsa Djordjevic Suca and 45 In addition a video posted by “madnick77” Milorad Ulemek Legija….. The Albanian says that Greger himself used “drugs and Muslims in Serbia refused deportation and prostitution” in pursuit of his political goals convertion from Islam (and instead started (“Commander Nick Greger A.k.a Mad Nick / armed resistance) and as such were targeted The Order 777,” link). for annihilation.” Of those named by Breivik, Ulemek is the sole survivor; Raznatovic (“Arkan”), and Suca were both murdered. 46 Charles Taylor was less known for drug trafficking than for the illicit traffic in blood-

40 diamonds. Nevertheless when Taylor, a Duncan Gardham, “Violent Videos of Oslo fugitive, was finally detained in a Range Rover Killer’s ‘Mentor,’” Daily Telegraph (London), with Nigerian diplomatic plates, significant July 29, 2011. amounts of cash and heroin were found in the vehicle (Sunday Times [London], August 8, 41 The only exceptions to this style are the stills 2010). Cf. Mail Guardian [South Africa], of Breivik himself at the end of the video. December 3. 2010, link: “A leading Dutch newspaper, Parool, carried a prominent news story last Friday linking … Liberia’s current 42 Richard Bartholomew, “Paul Ray Identifies leader, Charles Taylor, to a notorious drug with Northern Ireland Loyalistsyndicate. “ Groups,” Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, October 23, 2009. Discussed atRichard 47 Bartholomew, “ London Times Highlights Paul For Geagea’s drug trafficking see Jonathan Ray,” Bartholomew’s Notes on Religion, July Marshall, Descent into Chaos: Drug Trafficking 29, 2011. and the Failure of Lebanon’s State, 1950-1990 (Stanford: Stanford UP, forthcoming), 131; citing Le Monde, May 19, 1990; Labrousse, La 43 “Tribute to President Charles Taylor The droga, 136-137. Order 777,” link.

48 For Johnny Adair’s drug trafficking see 44 Colbert I. King, “Pat Robertson's Gold,” “Johnny Adair: Notorious Loyalist,” BBC News,

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January 10, 2003,link ; cf. Daily Record, 2011.) Lunev was a senior officer of Far West, February 5, 2011, link. responsible in particular for Far West’s “strong arm operations,” including the violent coup d’etat of 1991 against Georgian Premier Zviad 49 ”UDA hitman muscles in on Scots drugs Gamsahurdia, in which at least 113 people died racket; Adair lieutenant seeks new patch after (Peter Dale Scott, “The Global Drug Meta- failed deal leaves him broke,” link. Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11”; cf. Link.) The Breivik manifesto

50 does mention travel to Belarus. But “Billy Wright and INLA carved up drugs unfortunately there is no independent market,” NewsLetter.co, link. A seventh man corroboration for the claim of a Breivik-Lunev celebrated in the Greger video, Wright’s LTV connection, alleged by a Belarusian politician, adjutant, Mark Fulton, has not been personally Mikhail Reshetnikov, with an obvious motive to accused of drug trafficking. But Fulton’s implicate the Belarus Government of Alexander brother, Jim Fulton, was arrested in California Lukashenko. (Cf. “Filin – “El Buho” Is Getting with terrorist materials and drugs for sale, and Nervous,” Left.ru, June 24, 2006, link: Lunev the whole LTV militia has been accused “serves in the counter-terrorist department of collectively of becoming drug dealers (BBC his [Lukashenko’s] KGB.”) News, January 16, 2000, link).

55 51 “Filin – “El Buho” Is Getting Nervous,” “Ulemek Made Industry Out of Criminal Left.ru, June 24, 2006. Gang,” B92-News, December 17, 2997,link : “Ulemek and Spasojević had some 200 men under their direct control, the state said, and 56 Mats R. Berdal and Mónica Serrano, established a drug trafficking monopoly in the Transnational organized crime and capital, as well as in Vojvodina and the town of international security: business as usual? Požarevac. This monopoly came as a result of a (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2002). series of murders, starting in 2000.”

57 Scott, American War Machine, 188; Peter 52 “Killers of Serbia's first elected PM jailed for Dale Scott, “The Real Grand Chessboard and 40 years,” Independent (London), May 24, the Profiteers of War (Part Two),”Foreign 2007. Policy Journal, January 10, 2010; Scott, “The Global Drug Meta-Group.” 53 Cecilia Ferrara, “Against the Mafia,” Balcanicaucaso.org, February 26, 2010. 58 Scott, “The Global Drug Meta-Group.”

54 My interest in Breivik and Far West began 59 Rothkopf, Superclass, 289; cf. xx. after reading the claim from Belarus that Breivik “underwent militant-terrorist training under the guidance of 51-year-old Valery 60 Ronald Kessler, The Richest Man in the Lunev, a former colonel of Belarusian special World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi (New forces, who now lives in the Netherlands but York: Warner Books, 1988). Khashoggi was also regularly visits Belarus” Yuri( Mamchur, listed in the 1992 Senate BCCI Report as one of “Norwegian Terrorist Anders Breivik Trained in the “principal foreign agents of the U.S.” (U.S. Belarus Militant Camps,” Russia Blog, July 28, Congress. Senate, 102nd Cong., 2nd Sess. The

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BCCI Affair: A Report to the Senate Committee and shuttles between Moscow suburbs and on Foreign Relations from Senator John Kerry, Minsk. As to Bout’s and Chichakli’s friend Mr. Chairman, and from Senator Hank Brown, [Charles] Taylor, he has been apprehended by Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Terrorism, the Hague Tribunal.“ It is widely accepted that Narcotics, and International Operations, 299; Bout’s arms shipments to Liberia served the Scott, American War Machine, 160-62). purposes of Taylor. But it can also be assumed that Taylor’s coup and arms purchases served

61 the financial interests of Bout, a much more Moisés Naím,Illicit: how smugglers, powerful and well-connected figure. traffickers, and copycats are hijacking the global economy (New York: Doubleday, 2005),

49; quoted in Rothkopf, Superclass, 218. An 62 Scott, Road to 9/11, 254; citing Daniel associate of Viktor Bout, Oleg Orlov of EMM Singer, Whose Millennium: Theirs or Ours Arab Systems in Cyprus, collaborated both in Bout’s arms sales to Africa and in Bout’s (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1999). shipping of Ukrainian X-55 cruise missiles, illegally exported by Far West, to Iran and China (UN Final report of the Monitoring 63 Reuters, July 26, 2011, link. Mechanism on Angola Sanctions, paragraphs 64 Scott, American War Machine, 191-92. 111 – 144, link (Bout/Orlov/Africa); cf. “Filin-‘El Buho’ is getting nervous:” “[Viktor] Bout- Aminov, [Richard] Chichakli, and Oleg Orlov 65 Peter Dale Scott, “The Global Drug Meta- were ‘outed’ in Angola and later in the rest of Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Africa in 2002-2005. Then Orlov was ‘outed’ in Russian 9/11”; cf. Link. the X-55 affair, China and Iran in the beginning of 2005. As the result, Orlov is in the Ukrainian jail, Chichakli hides somewhere in the66 American War Machine, 2-5, 43; cf. 20-22, Emirates, and Bout-Aminov keeps a low profile 134-40, 239-41.

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